Category: Mediation Practice

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“Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is...

I had just finished a landlord tenant mediation. When the clients left, I turned to the three observers, soon-to-be mediators...

Welcome to the Commercial Section. This section is devoted to the advancement of professional commercial mediation from the dual perspectives...

“Authenticity is the greatest form of deception.” -The Usual Suspects The Usual Suspects (1995), is a movie of the film...

This article shows the utilization of Beatles songs as a tool for sensitizing participants in mediation. The selected music contains...

This article was originally published in Family Mediation News, the Newsletter of the the Family Section of the Association For...

Mediation is a settlement process where a third-party mediator assists the parties in negotiating a voluntary settlement of a dispute....

With apologies to Willie Shakespeare, what I’m onto here are presuit mediations. We’ll call them, for short, “presuits.” Why do...

Reprinted from: "Hawaii Pacific Architecture", January 1995 Copyright © 1996 THE ROSENTHAL GROUP All Rights Reserved ADR Techniques have long...

The Mediator Success Graph is an instrument that will assist you in evaluating your potential for success in a professional,...

I. THE STANDARD TRIAL MODEL We peek in at the closing arguments in the case of NewPuke Co. v. MegaDeth...

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The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution has noted the wide range of views expressed by scholars, mediators, and regulators concerning...

As mediators, we feel a certain pressure to help parties meet their goals at the table, whether those goals are...

Business executives are spending increasing amounts of their time and money resolving legal disputes. When executives want to be concentrating...

WHAT IS MEDIATION? One often hears the term "mediation" in connection with resolution of disputes which have already become lawsuits,...

Order at Amazon.comMost people practicing ADR would agree that there is a lot of communication that occurs non-verbally in the...

This excerpt is reprinted with permission from Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company. It is drawn from I Hear What You Say,...

After four years of trying to enter the mediation profession, I came to the conclusion that there is no mediation...

A Briefing Paper from The Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE)This document was developed by CADRE,a project...

A developer I work with finds the typical land use approval process so grueling and disruptive that he has, at...

The past quarter century has witnessed phenomenal growth in the mediation field in North America and with it the development...

This document was developed by CADRE, a project of Direction Service pursuant to Cooperative Agreement CFDA H326D98002 with the Office...

You and your clients have just gone through a lengthy mediation. After hours of hard bargaining, a settlement finally is...

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Book Review: The Mediation Field Guide: Transcending Litigation and Resolving Conflicts in Your Business or Organization by Barbara Ashley Phillips...

The barbaric terrorist attacks of September 11 have brought out the courage, patriotism and selflessness in millions of Americans. It...

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